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We describe an image-guided neurosurgery system which we have successfully used on 70 cases in the operating room. The system is designed to achieve high positional accuracy with a simple and efficient interface that interferes little with the operating room’s usual procedures, but is general enough to use on a wide range of cases. It uses data from a laser scanner or a trackable probe to register segmented MR imagery to the patient’s position in the operating room, and an optical tracking system to track head motion and localize medical instruments. Output visualizations for the surgeon consist of an “enhanced reality display,” showing location of hidden internal structures, and an instrument tracking display, showing the location of instruments in the context of the MR imagery. Initial assessment of the system in the operating room indicates a high degree of robustness and accuracy.
This report describes research supported in part by DARPA under ONR contract N00014-94-01-0994.
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Grimson, E. et al. (1998). Clinical experience with a high precision image-guided neurosurgery system. In: Wells, W.M., Colchester, A., Delp, S. (eds) Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention — MICCAI’98. MICCAI 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1496. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0056188
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